#Pbchat

Frances Gilbert

Wondering why it takes so long for your picture book to come to market? Here’s the schedule: #pbchat After acquiring a manuscript, it can take at least a couple of

Frances Gilbert

Last night at the @SCBWI webinar, I mentioned that I thought putting your picture book word count at the start of your query was wasting prime space you could use

Frances Gilbert

I've been reading a ton of picture book manuscript lately and it has me thinking about word count, which is an issue I know comes up a lot and causes

Frances Gilbert

I've been reading a TON of picture book submissions lately, from agents, Twitter pitches, conference attendees, etc. Easily 20 per day. One question that keeps nagging at me when I

The Catchpole Agency

We noticed The Beatles's Paperback Writer is actually a submissions letter! So we changed the words... Picturebooks are an art in themselves. So are submissions letters. See next tweets for